Motivations for mobility and settlement of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin.
This article focuses on individual perceptions that shape migration decisions and investigates how the process of migration or settlement itself is framed by a variety of personal considerations. It is a comparative study of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin who moved for the sake of ec...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 62 - 80 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2016
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